Attend the Emporium’s Holiday Open House, November 12 and 13
The Emporium will be celebrating the arrival of the holiday season at a Holiday Open House for its shoppers on Friday and Saturday, November 12 and 13. The celebration’s hours will be noon to six on Friday and 10 to 3 on Saturday, within the Emporium’s usual hours of 8 to 6 on Fridays and 8 to 3 on Saturdays. The Emporium can be holding an open house in November because it’s open year-round.
Drop in at the Emporium, at North Forge Rd. and Broad St. in Palmyra, and greet Tom Maurer, the Emporium’s circuit-riding manager, and his fresh-food suppliers, enjoy soup and chili, sausage and other meats along with just-baked bread and more treats!
There will be food and wellness discussions both days, as well as door prizes. This is an opportunity for the Emporium’s shoppers to become more familiar with its aims of preserving and developing local food supplies and healthy eating. There’s no other market quite like it in Central Pennsylvania.
And while anticipating the Open House, be mindful that Barb Blauch, of Palmyra, has started contributing fresh-baked apple dumplings to the Emporium’s weekly baked goods table!
Tom Maurer, Emporium founder/proprietor, is a self-taught authority in agriculture sustainability and economics. He co-founded the Lebanon Valley Food & Farming Association, primarily made up of farmers, to advocate for local, sustainable farming; he further founded CARE, which has advocated for more flexibility in producing, distributing and selling raw milk products in PA. He is currently advising PASA (and PA legislators) on food safety and related laws and regulations pending revision, to protect local/organic/sustainable farmers.
Best news of all: Tom will have a more active role here on the blog in the New Year! Thanks for your interest…
Karen Green, PRFE Board